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Show J -4 ! k ! S ' to , , . - . . i . - . . - vji 289 The beavers select , as ( he lie ) understands them , for putting in a cache for their winter food , any ( deep deep- deep ) water ; he ( wouldn't wouldnt ) necessarily say that it is the * channel of the river , but most usually where you find the channel of the river you find the deep water . He has trapped enough beaver to know ( where- where ) ever to find the home and cache of beaver and you find it in deep water . He naturally assumes the deep water is where the main channel of the stream is , any place on that river . ( R . 1086-1087 . ) On ( Ms his ) first trip down the river in 1911 he spent about four months between Green River , Wyoming , and North Wash ( which -which which ) is about four miles below , the Dirty Devil River . The trip was made for the purpose of prospecting for placer and quartz and was made all the way between those two points in a boat . On the second trip which wAs made in 1924 from Greenriver , Utah , to Lees Ferry , he was accom - panied by his brother and all of the supplies taken were purchased at Greenriver , Utah . On a trip made in the winter of 1925 , he entered the Green River at Ninemile , Utah , about ( twenty- twenty ) four miles below Ouray , Utah , and boated down the Green River to the junction and up to ( Moab -Moab Moab ) . The trip made in 1926 commenced at Ouray , Utah , and ( ended -ended ended ) at ( Loekhart Lockhart ) ( below Moab on the Colorado River ) . He was accompanied on the trip by a ( man inan ) named Dave Fraughten . ( 3330T-31-voi 3330T31voi ) , . 1-19 |